placation
Example Sentences
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Todbaum reappeared and demanded his car keys, and the process of placation had to begin anew.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
On April 24, there’s a clear record of DiSabato requesting help: In an email to Jordan, he pleaded: “You have the platform to cut through the double talk, placation and finger pointing.”
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2018
The Roman poet Juvenal wrote derisively about “bread and circuses” as a form of placation and escapism during the reign of Emperor Augustus in the first century.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
The individual need for placation and augmentation plays out in ways big and small.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2015
As I went up the stairs, I could hear my parents’ voices in the dining room, my mother’s raised in outrage, my father’s rumbling in placation.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
